Yet another zero day exploit has appeared, taking advantage of a flaw in the way Acrobat and Acrobat Reader parses JavaScript. Adobe found out about the problem Monday so it is likely that exploits are already running around the net. Even better, most antivirus programs cannot spot the problem yet. For now the advice Slashdot offers is your best defence, disable JavaScript in Acrobat.

Users of Office 2003 that have been avoiding the change to 2007 were in for a nasty surprise over the weekend. If their company uses Microsoft’s Rights Management Service to protect their documents then thanks to an expired security certificate then when a file was accessed, instead of the file opening they were greeted with "Unexpected error occurred.

The new Mionix gaming mouse is called the Saiph 1800, strangely it is indeed an 1800DPI mouse, with 7 buttons and oversized Teflon feet. It is fairly large, about the same size as the Razer Death Adder
and the 2m cord should allow you free movement while gaming. Hi-Tech Reviews took it out for a spin and were impressed with the mouse its self, but were a little unhappy at the lack of a dead tree manual or a driver on optical media in the box with the

It has been said before and it will be said many times again, while AMD has some incredible graphics cards out there, it is almost impossible to get your hands on a 40nm process 5000 series card. If you can find one in stock though, you will not be disappointed. The HIS Radeon 5850 will set you back about $315 and offers 2 dual-link DVI, one HDMI and one DisplayPort
on the back, sending 1080p signals

If you are a regular viewer of the PC Perspective you know that Colleen is not the biggest fan of optical media; she goes as far as to ensure none of her boxen have an optical drive unless absolutely necessary. One might wonder how she goes about installing Windows, or even Linux, without a DVD drive. The answer is very simple, a bootalbe USB drive can do everything the original DVD can and more. Ars Technica offers two different ways in which to set up a bootable USB drive tha

With the advent of DX11 and affordable cards that can handle the new features comes a whole new language of features to explore. High Definition Ambient Occlusion, High Dynamic Range in 64-bit and even updates to shadow mappings. [H]ard|OCP takes you on a visual trip through the differences between DX9 and DX11 using the only game out there that currently takes advantage of the new instruction sets, DiRT 2.

Sound cards have quickly gone from an absolute necessity to an afterthought for most PC enthusiasts thanks to the huge jump in quality from onboard sound. Some of the motherboards today come with HD 7.1 sound built in, an numerous ways of outputting that signal. This means sound cards have also had to grow, offering more than just the benefit of offloading the processing from the CPU. The Creative X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Profe